YouTube transcripts

YouTube transcripts MCP Server

Retrieves transcripts for given YouTube video URLs.

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Characteristics

Attribute	Details
Docker Image	mcp/youtube-transcript⁠
Author	jkawamoto⁠
Repository	https://github.com/jkawamoto/mcp-youtube-transcript⁠
Dockerfile	https://github.com/jkawamoto/mcp-youtube-transcript/blob/main/Dockerfile⁠
Docker Image built by	Docker Inc.
Docker Scout Health Score
Verify Signature	COSIGN_REPOSITORY=mcp/signatures cosign verify mcp/youtube-transcript --key https://raw.githubusercontent.com/docker/keyring/refs/heads/main/public/mcp/latest.pub
Licence	MIT License

Available Tools (1)

Tools Details

Tool: get_transcript

Retrieves the transcript of a YouTube video.

Use this MCP Server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube_transcript": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "mcp/youtube-transcript"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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